Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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God is not a dead equation!
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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